KEY (DAY 1)_HSG 20-21

USE OF ENGLISH (50 pts, 1 pt each correct answer)

1. B. totally 18. C. go 35. A. a close second

2. D. squirt 19. B. castigated 36. A. the others
3. C. pretentious 20. D. dragon 37. A. don’t they
4. D. opinionated 21. C. hangers-on 38. B. be stopped
5. D. faintest 22. A. unwind 39. C. Is Claire really
6. A. tacky 23. A. cat’s whiskers thinking of
7. B. distraught 24. A. mistimed 40. B. are
8. A. listlessness 25. C. mismatched 41. D. Were it not for
9. D. imminence 26. D. pose 42. D. having been lost
10. D. bottlenecks 27. A. picking on 43. B. needn’t
11. C. picked 28. A. reinforced 44. B. not have organized
12. A. compendious 29. B. hearsay 45. A. would approve
13. B. of 30. A. forcible 46. C. arousing
14. D. assault 31. D. fiddle 47. B. Much as I believe
15. A. haggard 32. B. drop 48. C. The demand was such
16. B. psychic 33. D. separate the sheep 49. C. were
17. D. practically 34. A. not much cop 50. D. couldn’t have been

GUIDED CLOZE (30 pts, 1 pt each correct answer)

PASSAGE A
1. B. viable 9. D. issue
2. C. vastly 10. B. constricting
3. A. isolation 11. A. destructive
4. D. insertion 12. C. under
5. B. cross 13. D. highly
6. A. permeable 14. D. concept
7. C. communities 15. B. normal
8. D. depth

PASSAGE B
16. C. line 24. D. peel back
17. A. front 25. C. Dubbed
18. D. into 26. A. impetus
19. B. discharging 27. C. on
20. A. cracking 28. D. project
21. D. offing 29. D. unfazed
22. B. raw 30. C. perilous
23. C. redress

READING COMPREHENSION (20 pts, 1 pt each correct answer)

PASSAGE A PASSAGE B
1. C 6. C
2. A 7. C
3. D 8. D
4. B 9. C
5. B 10.D

PASSAGE C
11. D 16. C
12. A 17. A
13. C 18. B
14. D 19. A
15. C 20. B
 WORD FORMS (20 pts, 1 pt each correct answer)
1. COMPATRIOTS 6. OUTSPOKENLY
2. ARBORICULTURE 7. IMMUTABILITY
3. LIGHT-FINGERED 8. ABATEMENT
4. ACTION-PACKED 9. ABDUCTEE
5. TENDERFEET/TENDERFOOTS 10. AHISTORICAL

11. OPPOSING 16. ENACTED

12. OCCUPATION 17. INAUGURAL
13. WARRING 18. PERSONIFIED
14. NOBILITY 19. GRACIOUS
15. NOTORIETY 20. UNDAUNTED

CLOZE TESTS (60 pts, 2 pts each correct answer)

PASSAGE A
1. Amounts 6. buried 11. agent
2. Risks 7. put 12. Road
3. Units 8. holes 13. however/ though
4. counterfeit 9. but 14. take
5. heavy 10. record 15. issuing

PASSAGE B
16. key 21. code 26. noughts
17. processing 22. while 27. beat
18. surpass 23. moves 28. probability
19. potential 24. fastest 29. intelligently
20. beyond 25. get 30. fully

SENTENCE TRANSFORMATION (20 pts, 2 pts each correct answer)

1. It is a matter of time before charges will be pressed against the murderer.
2. We were taken aback when Mark came on stage to deliver his speech with aplomb.
3. Never before have the students held a demonstration in defiance of school
regulations.
4. Should the starlet be interviewed, she will express her remarks on show business
with gay abandon.
5. No matter what effort the scientist had made, all of his ambitions came to grief.
6. Once the new recruits have passed/ pass the test, they will be groomed for highly
competent tasks.
7. So skillful were the defenders of the visiting team that they could head off our effort
to score one more goal.
8. Due to the judges’ harsh comments, Jimmy’s chance to become a singer was done
for.
9. Enough funds collected, they are now putting their ideas into practice.
Enough funds have been collected, so they are putting their ideas into practice.
10. It’s time Auntie Clara acted her age.

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